- Description
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- Creator
- Francis Towne (1739 - 1816)
- Title(s)
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- Bath
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Pen and ink, watercolour
- Dimensions
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- image width 178mm,
- image length 318mm
- Support
- two sheets
- Inscription
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- sheet, recto, lower right
- “F.Towne delt 1805”
- Object Type
- Watercolour
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- Catalogue Number
- FT635
- Description Sources
- Agnew's records; Witt Library (image)
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist in 1816 to James White of Exeter (1744–1825), on whose death it passed to Towne’s residuary legatee John Herman Merivale (1779–1844) and his successors. Merivale’s granddaughters Maria Sophia Merivale (1853–1928) and Judith Ann Merivale (1860–1945), both of Oxford, inherited the drawing in May 1915 (BP238). On 26 February 1940 (the Barton Place catalogue gives April 1940) Judith Merivale sold it for £10 to Agnew’s (no.3042), who sold it the same day to D. L. J. Perkins (b. ca. 1902) for £12 10s., whereafter it was untraced until it was acquired by a private collector.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection
- D. L. J. Perkins (ca. 1902 - ?), 26 February 1940, GBP 12.10s
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 26 February 1940, GBP 10, no.3042
- Judith Ann Merivale (1860 - 1945), Oxford, May 1915, BP238
- Maria Sophia Merivale (1853 - 1928), Oxford, May 1915, BP238
- John Herman Merivale (1779 - 1844), 1825
- James White (1744 - 1825), Exeter, 1816
- Exhibition History
- 67th Annual Exhibition of Water-Colour and Pencil Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1940, no. 128
- Bibliography
- Adrian Bury, Francis Towne - Lone Star of Water-Colour Painting, Charles Skilton: London, 1962, p. 152
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